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57. No. 12. SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1942 THE NEW JUSTICE OF THE FAMILY COURT CONGRATULATIONS are in order for both Mayor LaGuardia and one of Harlem's outstanding citizens, Hon. Hubert T.

Delany, who was recently sworn in as a justice of the Domestic Relations Court, better known as the Family Court. The promotion for the youthful Harlemite was deserved and was earned through the ability and skill he has snown in the handling of the difficult tax problems of the City of New York as member of the Tax Commission since 1934. He was one of the first appointees of Mayor LaGuardia and has always had his full confidence and support. Although only 41, Justice Delany has been a pioneer for his race in several difficult jobs since he became lawyer in 1927. Before he was 30, he became one of the chief assistants to the Hon.

Charles H. Tuttle when he was the U. S. Attorney for the Southern District of New and he was also the first member of his race to serve in so important a post as Commissioner of Taxes and In between he found time to make the race as the Republican candidate for Congress from the 21st Congressional District in 1928, and to build up a large private practice, numbering among Jus clients Marian Anderson, Cab Calloway, E. Simms Campbell, and several other well known personages, He has also been active in the work of the Y.

M. C. the USO, the National Urban League and other civic organizations. About Mayor LaGuardia, the opinion in some quarters is that he has been "disinte grating" for the past few years, but we ven ture the opinion that it will be a long time before this city and country will have anoth er Mayor to match his record. His square ness on the race question has been a source of gratification to Negroes not only in New York but also throughout the country.

SENATOR BANKHEAD AND THE NEGRO JHE WIDELY PUBLICIZED letter of Senator John D. Bankhead of Alabama to General George C. Marshall, urging that Negro troops from the North be removed from southern training, camps, achieved one purpose at least to attract national attention to the growing anti Negro feeling in certain parts of this country. Said the VTht bast friends of the Negroes in the South are very much concerned about the growing anxiety that race conflicts may break out and lead to bloodshed. "Our people feel that the government is doing a disservice to the war effort by locating Negro troops in the South in the immediate contact with white troops at a time when race feeling has been aroused and when all the energies of both whites and blacks should be devoted to the war effort? The Senator added that if Negro soldiers must be trained in the South "as a result of social or political pressure, can't you place Southern Negro soldiers there and place the Northern Negro soldiers in the North where their presence is not likely to lead to race wars." This suggestion for the segregation of Ne gro soldiers is typical of white South erner'i way of thinking.

To the Axis, an American soldier is an enemy regardless of whether he be black or white, yet to certain white men in this country, a Negro is stil a fegro a second rate citizen at best even though he may wear the uniform of the U. S. Army and shoulder a gun in defense of his country. If there are racial conflicts in southern camps, it will be because the civilian popula tion of the white South refuses to respect the Army uniform when its wearer happens to be colored. And for the federal govern mcnt to adopt Senator Bankhead 'i sugges tion would be to endorse this attitude.

The increasing hostility between the races in the South is due largely to the re us of Negro soldiers to accept the segregation, discrimin Stion and other undemocratic practices in the South. THE NATIONAL NEGRO BUSINESS LEAGUE JHE NATIONAL NEGRO BUSINESS LEAGUE, organized in 190 by late a I Dooiccr. vwsninjign, lor 4 ivng iixnt an inspirational organization and its annual conventions were used by Dr. Washington to point out what the Negro was doing in a business way and to suggest ways in which we as a racial group could better our lot by going into business, and by adopting mod ern methods of doing business. A little more than a decade ago, there was so much criticism of the league as nothing more than a "talking fest," that the late Dr.

R. R. Moton, then president, was induced to have the League back a movement to establish a grocery chain, known as the Colored Merchants Association. But lack of knowledge in the wholesale grocery and food distribution field, foredoomed this en ture to failure. The proposal is again being put forward to have the League sponsor another business venture, known as the Booker T.

Washing ton Holding Corporation, now. in process of organization. A prospectus is being sent to influential citizens throughout the country, which contains a long list of distinguished Negroes who have been selected as directors. The plan is to offer to the public stock at $5 per share and create a fund of 250 million dollars. This money, we understand, will be invested in existing Negro business to permit them to expand, and to help create new enterprises as the need arises.

The matter wille voted upon at the forth. coming convention of the National Negro Business League in Chicago, August 26 to 28. On the surface, it sounds like a eood plan but a careful perusal of the prospectus and these listed as directors, leads us to make the following observations: 1. That such a company should be in corporated under the laws of the State of New York where it will come under super vision of the State Banking Department, which would in turn pass on the qualifica tions of its directors, and by periodic inspec tions see that its affairs were conducted in the most orthodox manner. 2.

That if the shares sold to the public reach anywhere near' the goal set by the promoters, a part of the funds, at least, be invested in gilt edge securities and government bonds so as to bring in an immediate and assured income which would cover administrative and organizing expenses. And that funds invested in Negro businesses be put on a basis of loans to such establishments to be repayed with interest at a specified time. 3. Finally, that some one trained in the field of finance and banking be appointed to manage the affairs of the new company. The trouble with most similar organizations has been the we have had too many amateurs dabbling in finance and business, unable to realize that such an undertaking requires the best training experience and skill possible.

Only by giving a competent person author ity to conduct such a business can there be any chance of success in the face of present keen, competition and the unsettled conditions in the world today. On the whole, we thing such an undertak ing would be a worthwhile post war experi ment for the Leaeue to soonsor. i. FREIGHT TRAINS OF THE AIR CANNOT UNDERSTAND why offi cial hesitates about accept ing the plan submitted by a prominent manu facturer to construct a large fleet of airplanes to carry war munitions and 'soldiers to dis tant battlefields. With the boats sinking ships, faster than we can build them, it seems to us that this plan offers a solution to the shipping problem.

At the presejit time bombers are in use which can carry a load of bombs weighing several tons and passengers planes are carrying as many of fifty people at a time. This load could be easily converted into freight and although the cost of shipping would be much greater, the saving in time would, we believe, over balance this cost. In addition to the trans oceanic problem of shipping, we have the internal problem of getting gas and oil from the South and West to the Eastern Seaboard and here again we think that the airplane is the Answer. A fleet of cargo planes could solve this problem quicker than building a pipe line, and could also be used to transport sugar, tropical fruits and other foodstuffs from the Caribbean and South America. The potentialities of the airplane have not been fully realized and this is especially true in the matter of hauling freight With the war situation growing more se ious daily, we think the government would do well to adopt any measure that would aid in a speedy victory and a greater use of the airplane is such a measure.

Notice To All Subscribers Date of expiration of jrur subscript ion Is stamped on your address wrappct each week. This for the purpose of giving jrou constant notice of the date four' subscription expires. Postal Reg tactions Require Payment in Advance ot Ail THE NEW i J5 AGE Saturday, August 15, ls BIC CHIEP WAHOO bSAowsvo660N Ik 7 C'MON. FOLKS! I H0P0NUM ft BOND Wih vSi mo uaf JJPtHn Across The Desk MIXED BASEBALL $3 11 By LUDLOW W. WFBNEB For many years now, agitation has (one on for mixed baseball, i.e.

the use of Negro players In the bif leagues. Spasmodically, groups have agitated toward that end but it wasn't until recent weeks that this agitation resulted in what appears to be a step In the right direction, the promise of several big league team owners and, managers to give Negro players try outs. It was with some surprise then, that I picked up the Daily News on Friday morning and found on one of its sports pages a story headlined "Mixed Baseball Wont Work, Paige Declares." The paper quoted an interview in Albany with Leroy "Satchel" Paige, one of the greatest Negro pitchers in Negro baseball today. It Paige was correctly quoted in the interview, he is no better than the Uncle Tom Negro of days gone by, for he raised issues which should not exist In these days and times when democracy is fighting for its very existence. "You might as well be honest about it," Paige is quoted as saying.

"There would be plenty of problems, not only In the South, where the colored boys wouldn't be able to stay and travel with the teams ladiow Spring training, but in the North, where they couldn't stay or eat with them in many places. "All the nice statements from both sides aren't going to knock out Jim Crow," he continued. That sort of argument is the typical Uncle Tom argument and is one of the prime reasons why Negroes have advanced no further in the United States today. For too long, too many Negroes have been content to remain in the little niche carved out for them by white society because to attempt to rise out of it would be kicking over the traces and would not conform to the accepted standards of Jim Crow. i It would have been Just as bad as Joe Louis, while still leading contender for the heavyweight title, saying: "What's the use of me training to fight for the heavyweight title because white matchmakers aren't going to give me a Chance because they don't want to see a Negro win the heavyweight crown.

Had Joe thought that and been content merely to continue as contender, he would not today be the idol of the sports world and heavyweight champion of the world. It would have been just as bad if A. Philip Randolph and his March on Washington Movement had been content to sit back and continue to watch Negroes Jim Crowed and denied the right to work in industry turning out war contracts. Had Mr. Randolph and the millions of Negroes all over the country been contented with the status quo, there never would have been issued President Roosevelt's Executive Order 8802 which not only has resulted in the employment of thousands upon thousands of Negroes in war industries but also caused creation of the Fair Employment Practice Committee which is doing exemplary service.

It would have been Just at bad. too. if Negroes had remained content with the status quo as pertains to members of the race in the armed forces. There would have been no alteration of the policy of the Navy, for instance, in accepting Negroes only in the messman branch. Instead, through protest and representations by Negro leaders, Negroes are being trained for other branches of service in the Navy and enlistments are being accepted in the Marine Corps.

In the Army, Negroes are now in the Air Corps as pilots and soon the 89th Pursuit Squadron, based at Tuskegee. is expected to reach the point in training of its personnel where it will become an important cog in the 'Air Corps. We could go' on. ad infinitum, and point out object lesson after object lesson of how Negroes, through protests against the injustices and inequalities they have suffered, have been given the right to compete on a free and equal basis with white citizens in this country. True, there has been the ever present spectacle of Jim Crow hovering around, but through refusal to accept defeat and refusal to remain quiescent Negroes have surmounted the difficulties confronting them.

So, if all Negroes were to accept Jim Crow as "Satchel" Paige is reputed to have accepted it in his interview, this race of ours would be In one helluva fix today. We would not only be stepped on but also kicked around. The aging (for baseball) "Satch" has certainly lost my respect and no doubt the respect of thousands of Nero and white sports fans for his "Uncle Tom" acceptance of the unwritten law against the Negro in big league baseball. Now It is a matter of record that when "Satchel" made his appearance it the Yankee Stadium two weeks ago with the Kansas City Monarchs he pitched only the first four innings of the game, being replaced after that by a relief pitcher who finished out the game for him. It could be that the great "Satchel" Is just a little bit afraid that he coudn't make the grade in the big leagues he's not young anymore as far as athletics is concerned and is hiding behind "Jim Crow" as an excuse.

Or It msy be that he is Just another Negro who is content to remain in his place down. Whatever the reason, here's a big Bronx cheer from me to "Satcnel" Paige. If I never see him pitch again, it will be too soon. 11 DUTY OF CIVILIANS By HTH TATLOB War is no longer a struggle be tween armed men. With the an nlhilation of time and space, we' have foreshortened the world, and the front line trenches are just as' liable to be in our cities and villages as on a far off batUe front' This puts us all in the war for, civilian defense is as much an arm of our fighting forces as the army, nary or air corps.

Civilian defense does not signify that you have any right to protection. It means work for you, and me, and each and every one of us, no matter where we live, nor what our staUon in life, nor at what wt toil no matter what our class, race or creed. Civilian defense. it self xtsrve tion. pure and simple.

Tee arratd forces must be tree think oaly of the enemy. Civilians must be trained to look after themselves and not to be spectators. They must not divert either supplies, time or energy from the main task of winning the war. There are certain simple rules to follow. First, coordinate your own bousebjd for defense.

Be sure you have followed all your local defense board's suggestions for blackouts and precautions against Incendiary bombs, and that you know the basic rules for personal protection. Plan what you would do in an emergency and be prepared for it Better a false alarm than unpreparedneas. Know jurt what you and each member of your family Is to do and give them aH. even the youngest, set tasks. Work Is the greatest preventative of panic.

Next register for suae specific LETTERS TO THE EDITOR A Sacred Pilgrimage Editor The New York Age; On the beautiful Sunday morning ot July 26 there emerged from the Ephesus Church ot the Seventh Day Adventists, Lenox avenue and 123rd street, a huge throng ot people formerly members of the Emtnuel AME Church. This huge gathering was augmented by many sympathizers from other churches who felt it their sacred duty to march. The Ephesus Church had harbored this congregation while negotiations were being completed for the acquisition of their new home now the Metropolitan Community Church. As the throng filed out into Lenox avenue into 125th street and on to Madison avenue, one was deeply moved by the various expressions on the many faces. The marchers were orderly in manner and virtually every one was silent.

Their faces bore a look of, determination and resolve that, they, with the help of will carry on as they were accustomed to before their pastor and minister and they, themselves, were so unjustifiably disturbed. The men who lined the streets took off their hats in reverence and respect, the women and children stood at attention as the faithful passed by like a sacred pilgrimage; and they approached their new home, a beautiful religious edifice, I felt as they this was comparable to Christ's triumphal entry into Jerusalem, and that they had achieved their purpose to worship as free men and women, conscious that righteousness had again overcome forces that had descended upon them like a plague. AN OBSERVER OF THE MARCH. Editor Expresses Thanks Editor, The New York Age: Just a line to express apprecia tion of the very fine editorial rela tive to the INTERRACIAL RE VIEW in this week's AGE. It is heartening to know that the stand we have taken in favor of the March on Washington movement is thus Confirmed.

Rev. JOHN LaFARGE, S.J, Executive Editor: America New York, N. Y. Corrects Our Story Editor. The New York Age: I am instructed by the members of this organisation to send you a vigorous note of protest relative to an article appearing in the August 1st issue of your paper con.

cerning our convention held from July 23, to July 26, at this address. If your reporter had covered this convention you would know that not only is this report far out of range of the facts, but is actually garbled and biased and can have no other effect than to destroy. In matters of a controversial na ure where it is impossible to get first hand information, it seems to me that newspapers of responsibil iy who desire to maintain the ethical standards ot the profession would first get both sides of the story and then publish only that which would allow it to maintain a neutral position in its dealings with ihe public. This you hsve neglected to do and have put yourself in the position of using distorted information, the dissemina tion of which could be harmful to an organization wnese purpose is primarily to educate the people and help in charting for them a simpler and fuller life. We emphatically deny that there was any resentment against white people, as your aricla purports On the contrary, Mr.

V. E. Andic of the Czechoslovak! Consulate, came to our meeting and spoke to our audience and was very heartily welcomed. It is our impression that this incident refers to a pub lie dinner sponsored by Mr. Lewin sometime last year, and which is now brought up for no other res son than to destroy a vigilant and progressive organization.

With regards to the other met en. it is enough to say that locals 2, 13, and as mentioned by you were all given their credentials and no question of their eligibility was brought up until they, along with delegates from a few other organizations, quesioned the math ods and procedure used to cover the strategies of scheming elique who seemed to be solely Interested in perpeuatlng tnemaelves In of net. A correct report of these pro. reeding would have been That the convention was opened on (CoBtiaeed page etgit) Job. Learn how to do it end ready to obey orders.

This is not a time for heroics. Slnglehanded heroism is fine, but a little care ful cooperation is likely to be more efficient Last trust those to authority to tell you 'when an emergency arises. Don't listen to or spread rumors. When the time of trial arise, dq what you art told to do and keep cooL It's like going up In an airplane you have to do your worrying first for worrying after you art up won't do you any good there's nothing you can do about it We are now an Island under lege gN must subordmstt eunelves voluntarily to tht all out effort to win Uus wart "Land of The Noble Free" By LAYLE LAKE (Speech of Dr. LAWRENCE NANCE EKVIN at Union Square, July 25, concluded from last week.) AM THIS IN THE LAND where men are supposed to have the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of hsppiness.

But Governor Darden would not be moved, and Odell Waller had to die. He and to die because reactionary capitalists had an Instrument In their hands to keep the laboring classes submerged and the Negro la his plaet. He was Just another common man. Common, yes common; common as air is common, whose sweetness we never guess until it is polluted; tjejbsTrab common, as water is common, without which shipwrecked men go. mad; common a God's sky is common, lit by day witft Infallible light; and starred at night with, whirling worlds of beauty.

Common, as Jesus Christ himself was common when the common people gladly beard, and who never entered the courts ot princes until he entered there to receive a crown of thorns and a robe of purple mock cry. Common, mothers are common, whs make and who unmake men. Thank God for common men for they shall yet inherit thU turbulent earth. What lesson are we Americans to learn from this tragedy? We are liit miinii people. Our great Secretary of State, Cor dell Hull said: "We are fighting to defend liberty for all people, without distinction of race, color or religion." And he further states that "this liberty must be deserved and maintained by the same watchfulness, the same courage, the same willingness to fight for.

it which first secured it." For three hundred and twenty three years the Negro has given up his labor, his blood and his life to this America. The first blood spilled upon the shores to gain independence, came from a Negro, Crispus Attucks, on Boston Commons. We fought with Jackson ia New Orleans; with Perry on Lake Erie; for Lincoln at Pillow WagneC at Gettysburg; with Theodore Roosevelt we marched up San Juan Hill; with "Blackjack" Pershiag we rode in Mexico; and yith Focb. we cried in the Muse Argonnc and at Verdun and Paris "They will not At Pearl Harbor and the Philippines, we gave our blood that our heritage of freedom shall prevail. We are now guarding liberty in Australia, in Hawaii, In Ireland, in New Guinea, in Panama.

We have never produced a spy; we have never shot at the flag. We have never grown a we have never been tried for sabotage. We are Americans, and we do not deserve the treatment that America ae cords us. I say here, on this platform at this hour, that it is the moral duty of every man and every woman in America to see to it that every boy and every girl in this democracy escapes want, poverty and crime, and that wc should dedicate ourselves for the extension of the democratic processes throughout the South, by fighting against the damnable Poll Tax System that sets father against son, and brother against brother; that exploit the weak; that strikes at those who dare not strike back; that crusehs the fallen; that hates the img that God has stamped upon a brother's soul. This thing does not belong in America.

It dims the glory and fervor of early American idealism, it drives democracy back to 'Ro. man Imperialism. It lends impetus to Fascism; it restores caste and oligarchy. It erases freedom and puts in it place slavery. It withdraws the name of humanity from upwards of twenty million people in America.

It restricts the political power of Labor. This law keeps democracy from working. And this is to the hour on the home front to fight for the emancipation or man from the materialistic philosophy; that puts profit above all else. The emancipation of man is the emancipation of Labor, and the. emancipation of Labor will come when black men and white men close ranks to free America from Poll Tax, Jim Crow.

Segregation and Hate. Yesterday we heard the same old cry from Georgia and Alabama that the Negro is utterly unfit to exercise the highest functions of 3 citizen, and that they protest against the subversion of the Social Or der whereby an ignorant and depraved race is placed in power arid influence above the virtuous, the educated and the refined. This from the state of Alabama, that allows the five Scottsboro boys to languisti in prison. And the state of Georgia, the state that brutally beat, About (Continued an page eight) People And Things 'Satchel' Does It! By EBENEZEB RAT Tbb evidently la no time to condone egrega tion with every ether person shouting to Uu housetops against any such practice. However.

'Satchel' Paige, act Negro baseball pitcher, does exactly that. In the much discussed ques tion of Inclusion of Negro players in white baseball Any hasty conclusion on Paige's remarks will bring denunciation and perhaps abuse upon the pitcher's dome. But one might consider the facts. In Paige's interview as released by the Associated Press the pitcher for the most part speaks for himself. "They'd have to offer me what I made last yeat 137,000." he says.

"And considering it strictly out side the financial angle, which Is all I'd be interested in because of the conditions that would exist it wouldn't appeal to me because of the monious other problems." Taking that statement by and large one could well agree with Paige. Baseball is strictly a business like so many other sports in this country, horse racing included. Since Paige can earn $37,000 in a year without being pushed around by crackers et al he finds no glory in being an underpaid guinea pig which is Just what first entries in tht white teams will be. Even when Paige concedes the impregnability of Southern prejudiceand that nf the North he actually Indicts those who perptuat racial intolerance. They are not only contemptible, but persistent Every possible effort Is being made against discrimination and segregation of Negroes in America.

This has been successful to a great and appreciable extent in Government and private Industry etc. and more Is expected to be achieved, but the written and unwritten prejudices of the South still dog the path of Negroes at all turns. Though Hef tin. Cole Blease and Borah have passed in death one hardly misses them in the Talmadges, the Dixons. the white Detroiters.

the KKKi and the Southern MPs. In York certain whites psy lip sen ice to the fight against racial discrimination while subtly but openly practicing it themselves. Peact of mind and decent treatment are invaluable assets to an athlete. Instead of tht signing of a few bydfferent dubs, an entire team of colored sre be operated in one or both of the malt'. circuits.

That would be something." Paige Is quoted as saying. And it would be. A club or clubs included in tht major leagues would be able to psy lucraUve salaries which would be an incentive to young Negro, players, bringing out the best in them and in a large number, rather! than tht speculsUvt possibility of being the lucky one ot two or three in a generation perhaps. This, strikes us somewhat like tht Negro musician, who went about organizing bis bands, forging his way ahead and injecting himself Into the blgtime then when the white musicians discovered that he "bad something" he didn't need pressure of public opinion to be hired; he was bid for. Wouldn't it be something if a Negro baseball team could whip the Yankees, or the Dudters, two or three games straight not to mention romping home with the pennant some season? Well say it would be.

Our ace basketball players don't seem to worry about playing oa white teams. Instead the Renaissance Five does a giod Job of trouncing all comers whites norehelets. WV are with "Satchel' Paige far the lncl'uion et oat er ratra colored baseball teams la the major leagues. That's equal cpportunltjl i a. 3 1 i a.

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